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Appendix 8i
The Wooden City: A Journal for Prisoners of War
This fortnightly newspaper for British prisoners of war at Göttingen first appeared on 1 July 1915. The prison camp's commandant,
Colonel Bogen, agreed to allow Professor Dr. Carl Stange to offer the British a newspaper in light of the French and Flemish newspapers
published for French and Belgian POW's at the camp. The Wooden City was an eight-page publication and the American YMCA Archives holds
the first two issues. The English newspaper featured letters from Colonel Bogen and Professor Stange and contained travelogues (Burma
and Egypt), stories about Canada, poetry, and editorials. The newspaper also contained information about camp events (card games, chess
and checker tournaments, chorus, theatricals, and YMCA activities) and a list of British prisoners of war interned at Göttingen. Unlike
the French newspaper distributed at Göttingen, The Wooden City did not address war news.1
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The Wooden City: A Journal for Prisoners of War
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Notes:
Note 1: The Wooden City: A Journal for Prisoners of War. Armed Services Records Box-53, Folder: "Prisoner of War Work for Germany-1914-1915," Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. back